Improved sash-holder



f lt-ind @55mm @am lim E. K. BREOKENRIDGE, 0F WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.-

Letters Patent No. 99,827, dated February 15, 1870.

IMPROVED SASH-QLDIER.v

The Schedule referred toln these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownV that I, E. K. BREGKENRIDGE, of West ,Mei-idem in the county of New Haven, and State ot' Gonnecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Window-Springs; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of'V the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this speciiication, and represent `in Figure 1, a top view;

Figure 2, a side view;

Figure 3, a longitudinal central section,

This invention relates to'an improvement in that class of window-springs designed to be placed in a wiudow-jamb, andv operated so as to throw a bolt into a window-sash, and the invention consists iu a socket formed in two pieces, and serrated so as to receive the bolt and secure it into the jamb, and the said bolt provided witl'i a handle extending through the socket to project out, so as to operate the bolt.

` To enable others to use and construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same,`as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the socket formed in two part-s A and A', (see fig. 2,) the two `parts so as to be locked together, and are secured by placing a wire around the two, as seen in figs. l and 2.

Upon the surface of each part I form a projecting serrated ledge, a., so that when the socket is driven into the window-jamb, the said ledge will afford all the security necessary to hold the socket in its place.

` B is the. bolt, with a tail, b, of less diameter than the bolt, the bolt iilling the outer end of the socket, the tail extending through so as to take a bearing in the inner eud, as seen in tig. 3.

Around the tail, within the socket, a spiral or other suitable spring is placed, the tendency of which is to push the bolt outward.

and through the said slot the arm (l extends, being fixed to or made a part of the bolt, as' seen in fig. 3, and so as to lie nearly parallel with the bolt, andprojecting out beyond the casing lsuiiciently to operate the spring by mea-ns of' the said arm. The said arm',

a stop to prevent the bolt from being force-d entirely from the socket.

By this construction the whole is formed in three pieces, and all of cast metal; that is, the socket in two parts, and the bolt and arm in one part, and secured into the ja-mb without the use of' nails or screws.

Having therefore thus fully described iny invention,

What I cluinras new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein described window-spring, as an article of manufacture, consisting of the socket A cast in two pieces, constructed with a slot d, and -provided with a bolt B, and its`arm`C, and with a serrated ledge a: e

E. K. BRECKENRIDGE.

Witnesses E. B. EVERETT,

COOKE LowNsBURY.

Through the side of the socket, a slot, el, is formed,

or that portion of it that lies in the slot d, serves as 

